Divahn - New Music, New Album

Divahn Music is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Galeet Dardashti.

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Divahn is self-funding a new album, and we would absolutely love and appreciate your support as we go through this exciting journey together!

Iranian-descended singer Galeet Dardashti leads our all-female power-house Middle Eastern Jewish ensemble, Divahn . Our New York City-based group has gained an international following with its fresh and fiery renditions of traditional and original Sephardi/Mizrahi Jewish songs: lush string arrangements, eclectic Indian, Middle Eastern, and Latin percussion, and vocals spanning Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic, and Aramaic. “Divahn,” a word common to Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic, means a collection of songs or poetry. Through our music, we underscore common ground between diverse Middle Eastern cultures and religions.

We recently completed our first song for the album, Banu Choshech Legaresh (We've Come to Chase Away The Darkness), a Hanukah song. We received such positive response that we decided to make a music video! We hope you enjoy it:

We appreciate any amount of donation, small or large! Your donation will go towards one of the numerous steps needed to make an album: recording in the studio, mixing and editing, promotion and marketing, printing CDs, and so much more! It’s a long process with many moving parts, and we are enjoying every moment!

Divahn is:
Galeet Dardashti: lead vocals, guitar, doumbek
Megan Gould: violin, vocals
Eleanor Norton: cello, vocals
Elizabeth Pupo-Walker: cajon, conga, vocals
Sejal Kukadia: tabla, vocals

[left to right: Sejal, Elizabeth, Galeet, Megan, Eleanor]

Here we are at Studio G in Brooklyn in December 2016, having a great time recording our first few songs for the new album.